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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
— David Hockney
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
— David Hockney
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look ... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
— David Hockney
I do believe that painting can change the world.
— David Hockney
It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops - for a split second.
— David Hockney
Anything simple always interests me.
— David Hockney
There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.
— David Hockney
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
— David Hockney
I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
— David Hockney
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
— David Hockney
The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.
— David Hockney
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
— David Hockney
The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
— David Hockney
Easel painting means small painting.
— David Hockney
He agreed with David Hockney that an artist really had to be able to draw before anything else could be achieved.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.
— David Hockney
I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
— David Hockney
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.
— David Hockney
How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.
— David Hockney
It takes a long time to make it simple.
— David Hockney
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
— David Hockney
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.
— David Hockney
Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.
— David Hockney
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
— David Hockney
I live wherever I happen to be.
— David Hockney
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
— David Hockney
Spring is very energising to me.
— David Hockney
You must plan to be spontaneous.
— David Hockney
I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.
— David Hockney
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
— David Hockney
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
— David Hockney
I value my friends.
— David Hockney
No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
— David Hockney
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
— David Hockney
I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
— David Hockney
Just because I'm cheeky, doesn't mean I'm not serious
— David Hockney
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
— David Hockney
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
— David Hockney
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
— David Hockney
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
— David Hockney
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
— David Hockney
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
— David Hockney
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
— David Hockney
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.
— David Hockney
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
— David Hockney
I'm not antisocial. I like people.
— David Hockney
I've realized that I can do performances.
— David Hockney
Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look
— David Hockney
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
— David Hockney
I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.
— David Hockney
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
— David Hockney
I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
— David Hockney
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— David Hockney
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.
— David Hockney
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
— David Hockney
It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
— David Hockney
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
— David Hockney
I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.
— David Hockney
The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
— David Hockney
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
— David Hockney
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
— David Hockney
Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!
— David Hockney
I'm a bit of a propagandist.
— David Hockney
There would be no bohemia without smoking.
— David Hockney
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
— David Hockney
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
— David Hockney
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
— David Hockney
I'm a natural sceptic.
— David Hockney
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
— David Hockney
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
— David Hockney
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
— David Hockney
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
— David Hockney
Tragedy is a literary concept.
— David Hockney
There are enough no smoking places now.
— David Hockney
I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
— David Hockney
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
— David Hockney
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
— David Hockney
If you are not playful you are not alive.
— David Hockney
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
— David Hockney
People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
— David Hockney
